Easter offerings and clerical exactions in the metropolis
The circular from the rector of St. Giles’s is condemned as a begging letter and a failed attempt at mendicancy, while the Mendicity Society in Red Lion Square is urged to warn against such appeals. Clergy may wield legal pressure through magistrates and distraint, contrasting with secular beggars, as rural districts show harsher enforcement of Easter offerings.
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St. Giles’s
Red-lion-square
Mendicity Society
Stepney Church Rate Case Sets Sights on Parish Feuds
In a novel magistrate’s ruling the four Mile-end Old-town overseers are chosen from the parish book’s original entry after a disputed show of hands. The decision appoints John Cocks, James Cott, John Bromley, and Henry Wealmessey to oversee the poor for the coming year amid Stepney division over church rates.
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Stepney
Times
Broderip
St. Dunstan
St. Philip
Deering
Spooner
Bird
Horton
Mile-end Old-town
Messrs
Cocks and Cott
Bromley
Walmesley
Rton
Parker
Antichurch-rate Association
John Cocks
James Cott
John Ebenezer Bromley
Henry Benjamin Wealmessey
Evangelical Alliance debate letter to James printed
In the Birmingham Pilot a reply from James to Sturge discusses the Evangelical Alliance. He defends the project, clarifying that the union aims at Evangelical Protestants beyond mere Protestant unity, and defends its articles of faith and intended aims.
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Sturge
James
Birmingham
The
Evangelical Alliance
Mr. James
Birmingham Pilot
Joseph Sturge
Edgbaston
Str
Alliance of Livangeli cal Protestants Promotes Brotherly Love
A letter discusses an alliance among Livangeli cal Protestants stressing mutual recognition and united action focused on devotion, scripture reading, and prayer. It clarifies the group’s limited aims, defends inclusion while maintaining certain articles, and argues inclusivity versus exclusive requirements within evangelical circles.
Fragmented Critique of Alliance and Clergy Baptism Debate
A long excerpt discusses Joseph Sturge and the Alliance, arguing he cannot join under its constitution, while a Church of England clergyman who shares his Christian principles on baptism might be admitted if Evangelical Protestant. It notes a British chaplaincy vacancy near the Rhine with six pupils and hints at exclusions in Christian education and warfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Tamas
Péloé
Joseph Sturge
Church of England
Sturge
Rhine
Religious Condition of Italy Lecture Summary
A Edinburgh lecture sketches Italy as embattled between old idolatry and reformist zeal. It highlights Waldenses and Dante as precursors of reform, notes influx of Luther and early free inquiry, then chronicles suppression after 1561 with the Inquisition and Council of Trent sealing papal spiritual despotism.
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Edinburgh Continental Association
Rose-street Secession Church
Robert Nisbet
Italy
Agrippa
Boniface
Vesta
Jupiter
Peter
God
Mary
Rome
Dante
Petrarch
Charles V
Francis
Luther
Church of Rome
Inquisition
Holy Office
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the Evangelical Alliance
Society of Friends
Liverpool
Fry
Joseph John Gurney
Jesus Christ
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